Calls for Donations for the Jewish Winter Relief for the Area of the Hanse City of Hamburg from the Gemeindeblatt [Congregation Newsletter], drawn by Hans Rudolf Growald, Hamburg, 1937/38

Source Description

These five drawings published in different issues of the Gemeindeblatt [Congregation Newsletter] and the
Jüdisches
Gemeindeblatt für das Gebiet der Hansestadt Hamburg [Jewish Congregation Newsletter for the
Area of the Hanse City of Hamburg] solicited
donations for the Jewish Winter Relief in the
winter of 1937/38. The
signature appearing at the edge reads “Growald,” which indicates that the
drawings were the work of Berlin
commercial artist
Hans Rudolf Growald.

The five titles spelled in capital letters are as follows: “Jeder Kopf denkt an den Eintopf” [“Every head
remembers the Soup Kitchen Collection”]—the image shows five laughing heads
hovering over a laughing stew pot; “Ein einfaches
Exempel: Sonntagsbraten minus Eintopfgericht gleich
Winterhilfsspende” [“A simple example: Sunday roast minus stew
equals a donation to the Winter Relief”]—this
math problem shows a pot as teacher holding a pointer while standing in
front of a blackboard; “Helft leere Öfen und Töpfe
füllen” [“Help fill empty stoves and pots”]—which shows an
empty stove and an empty stew pot crying bitterly; and in the image titled
“Eintopfsammlung” [“Soup Kitchen
Collection”] a laughing figure 1 stirs a steaming pot of stew, which is a
kind of rebus puzzle for the German term “Eintopf.” By contrast, the image showing the lettering
“Jewish Winter Relief
1937 / 38” Jüdische
Winterhilfe
1937 / 38 has a
more serious character and, appealing to the viewer’s Jewish identity, shows
a lit menorah in the
background while the Jewish Winter Relief
logo, the letters J and W combined below a star of David, can be seen in the
foreground.

Recommended Citation

Calls for Donations for the Jewish Winter Relief for the Area of the Hanse City of Hamburg from the Gemeindeblatt [Congregation Newsletter], drawn by Hans Rudolf Growald, Hamburg, 1937/38 (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History,
<https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-77.en.v1> [February 22, 2019].